Interview with Luise von Flotow
Prof. Luise von Flotow is a Professor of Translation Studies who embarked on her teaching at the University of Ottawa in 1995 and was the Director of School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa from 2006 to 2016. Her main research interests are in the fields of feminist and...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2024 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) |
| Repository: | Cadernos de Tradução (Florianópolis. Online) |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/96354 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/96354 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Transnational feminist translation Luise von Flotow Interview Feminist Translation Studies |
| Summary: | Prof. Luise von Flotow is a Professor of Translation Studies who embarked on her teaching at the University of Ottawa in 1995 and was the Director of School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa from 2006 to 2016. Her main research interests are in the fields of feminist and gender issues in translation, political and ideological aspects of translation, audiovisual translation, and translation as cultural diplomacy. She is also a literary translator from German and French into English. She has translated nineteen books so far including her 2023 translation of The World at My Back by Thomas Melle. As a translator, she works mainly on texts by women writers. As a scholar, she is best known as the author of Translation and Gender: Translating in the ‘Era of Feminism’ (1997), the editor of Translating Women (2011), and co-editor of Translating Women: Different Voices and New Horizons (2017) and The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Feminism and Gender (2020). |
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